1789 JOHN ERSKINE. Friend of Jonathan Edwards Warns against George Whitefield Veneration &c. Fine Binding A very nicely preserved set

A very nicely preserved set of the first edition

I being then 20 years old & in the 4th year of my clerkship to an Attorney

and Robert Earl of Essex

Photographic frontis present

1789 JOHN ERSKINE. Friend of Jonathan Edwards Warns against George Whitefield Veneration &c. Fine Binding A very nicely preserved setA superb little item of post Great Awakening history. Dr. John Erskine was the premier Scottish defender, publisher, and promoter of both the American theologian Jonathan Edwards and the English open air evangelist George Whitefield. Many works published by Edwards were in fact first published in Scotland under Erskine's careful hand. Whitefield and Edwards were also both close and dear friends. When the First Great Awakening swept through the